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Affirmative action and diversity acceptances in colleges, and diversity job hires, all create opportunity. I don't see the need for reparations in other forms. A more effective approach for creating opportunities is to create jobs in inner cities to create more paths out of poverty. Also bring back vocational training in high schools and improve access to a college degree or vocational training post high school.

This.

Plus to those who keep repeating "are you an ally or are you racist"....that is the most ignorant and narrow minded statement. Just because someone disagrees with reparations, disagrees with removing names/statues, doesn't march in protests... does not make them racist!!

Which statues do you want to keep?

Affirmative action and diversity acceptances in colleges, and diversity job hires, all create opportunity. I don't see the need for reparations in other forms. A more effective approach for creating opportunities is to create jobs in inner cities to create more paths out of poverty. Also bring back vocational training in high schools and improve access to a college degree or vocational training post high school.

This.

Plus to those who keep repeating "are you an ally or are you racist"....that is the most ignorant and narrow minded statement. Just because someone disagrees with reparations, disagrees with removing names/statues, doesn't march in protests... does not make them racist!!

Anonymous wrote:Silicon Valley wealth built on white privilege and slave capital.

Educate yourselves.

You’re hopelessly stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:Silicon Valley wealth built on white privilege and slave capital.

Educate yourselves.

PP from top of this page is right. This is not a real person posting. It's a bot.

I agree.

Do you know who the early valley venture people were? Look up Draper family. Educate yourself.

Go away, bot.

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Anonymous wrote:Silicon Valley wealth built on white privilege and slave capital.

Educate yourselves.

PP from top of this page is right. This is not a real person posting. It's a bot.

I agree.

Do you know who the early valley venture people were? Look up Draper family. Educate yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Silicon Valley wealth built on white privilege and slave capital.

Educate yourselves.

PP from top of this page is right. This is not a real person posting. It's a bot.

I agree.

Anonymous wrote:Silicon Valley wealth built on white privilege and slave capital.

Educate yourselves.

PP from top of this page is right. This is not a real person posting. It's a bot.

Anonymous wrote:Silicon Valley wealth built on white privilege and slave capital.

Educate yourselves.

Educate your own self. There were many hardworking people in this country who weren't black and would have achieved the same things whether there were slaves or not. The more you take 100% credit for something you had nothing to do with and don't even understand, the less people will want to help you at all. Stop your shameful lies.

Silicon Valley wealth built on white privilege and slave capital.

Educate yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for paying higher taxes to provide healthcare for all, better schools, and free college for lower-income kids.

I worked in development for 10 years and huge cash transfers aren't the way to go. Teach a man to fish and all that.

I see your point. What if the accumulated wealth of people who benefited from slavery was put back into the school system, into healthcare, and other systems for supporting disadvantaged communities?

Why is always about getting paid back for slavery (or Jim Crow, redlining, bad policing etc.)? Why not just fund every school at the right level and give everyone good healthcare? Who cares if it equals the accumulated wealth from slavery or not?

Agree. The whole "payback" framing is a political non-starter on several fronts.
- Lots of recent immigrants think they have nothing to pay back.
- Nobody can calculate the "cost" of emotional and physical suffering, this just isn't something economists are good at doing. Claiming it's exactly equal to 100% of the wealth generated by slaveholders in 1860/all the wealth in the present day US is pretty random.
- Increasing the estate tax has been a non-starter for 20 years. And so on.

Let's have universal healthcare. Let's fix schools--maybe raise teacher salaries dramatically for teaching in failing schools. And so on.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for paying higher taxes to provide healthcare for all, better schools, and free college for lower-income kids.

I worked in development for 10 years and huge cash transfers aren't the way to go. Teach a man to fish and all that.

I see your point. What if the accumulated wealth of people who benefited from slavery was put back into the school system, into healthcare, and other systems for supporting disadvantaged communities?

PP here and confiscating 100% of everybody's (I assume that's what you meant) wealth is totally infeasible. How do you stop everybody from moving their money to the Cayman Islands, or from investing $80K in Portugal or wherever. Zuckerberg, the rest of Silicon Valley, and those middle-income whites with $100,000 in their 401(k)s are smart enough to get around this. Plus, most people who have wealth have more of it than they have income, so you're trying to confiscate much, much more than your original proposal. This is a dumb idea. The income tax system is the only way to go.

Plus, a lot of the one-percenter Silicon Valley money you want to go after came here after the Civil War. "Old money", and especially old southern money, is probably a really small share of the one percent by now. Good luck arguing to Zuckerberg or Bezos that they benefited from white privilege and therefore they need to hand over all their wealth instead of sending it to the Caymans. This a political non-starter.

That said, I'm all for paying higher taxes to support school reform, housing subsidies, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for paying higher taxes to provide healthcare for all, better schools, and free college for lower-income kids.

I worked in development for 10 years and huge cash transfers aren't the way to go. Teach a man to fish and all that.

I see your point. What if the accumulated wealth of people who benefited from slavery was put back into the school system, into healthcare, and other systems for supporting disadvantaged communities?

Why is always about getting paid back for slavery (or Jim Crow, redlining, bad policing etc.)? Why not just fund every school at the right level and give everyone good healthcare? Who cares if it equals the accumulated wealth from slavery or not?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm all for paying higher taxes to provide healthcare for all, better schools, and free college for lower-income kids.

I worked in development for 10 years and huge cash transfers aren't the way to go. Teach a man to fish and all that.

I see your point. What if the accumulated wealth of people who benefited from slavery was put back into the school system, into healthcare, and other systems for supporting disadvantaged communities?

PP here and confiscating 100% of everybody's (I assume that's what you meant) wealth is totally infeasible. How do you stop everybody from moving their money to the Cayman Islands, or from investing $80K in Portugal or wherever. Zuckerberg, the rest of Silicon Valley, and those middle-income whites with $100,000 in their 401(k)s are smart enough to get around this. Plus, most people who have wealth have more of it than they have income, so you're trying to confiscate much, much more than your original proposal. This is a dumb idea. The income tax system is the only way to go.

Anonymous wrote:I'm all for paying higher taxes to provide healthcare for all, better schools, and free college for lower-income kids.

I worked in development for 10 years and huge cash transfers aren't the way to go. Teach a man to fish and all that.

I see your point. What if the accumulated wealth of people who benefited from slavery was put back into the school system, into healthcare, and other systems for supporting disadvantaged communities?

I think most of the posters here are Russian trolls. Hell, the blog moderator probably is too.